Sambucus, John

, an eminent physician, and one of
the most learned writers in the sixteenth century, was born
in 1531, at Tirnau in Hungary. He visited the universities
of Germany, Italy, and France, and applied with almost
equal success to the study of medicine, the belles lettres,
poetry, history, and antiquities. His learning and reputation introduced him with great advantage at the courts of
the emperors Maximilian Ji. and Rodolphus II. to whom
he became counsellor and historiographer. Sambucus died
of an apoplexy at Vienna in Austria, June 13, 1584, aged
fifty-three, leaving an excellent “History of Hungary,”
in the German histories published by Schardius; “Lives
of the Roman Emperors j” Latin translations of “Hesiod,
Theophylacr, and part of Plato, Ovid, and Thucydides”
f Commentaries pn Horace’s Art of Poetry“notes on several Greek and Latin authors” Icones m’edicorum,“Antwerp, 1603, fol.;” Emblemata," Antwerp, 1576, 16to.
and several other works in verse and prose. 2

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